BRAIN FORCE HOLDING AG (Vienna Stock Exchange: BFC, Reuters: BFC.VI), a leading IT services provider with business operations in Austria, Germany, Switzerland, Italy, the Netherlands, Czech Republic and Slovakia, announced its financial figures for the first quarter of the 2009/10 financial year (October 1 to December 31, 2009) today. The first quarter continued to be negatively impacted by a difficult economic environment, but was also shaped by two strategically important transactions: the sale of the Professional Services business in Austria, and the creation of a joint venture with an investor to finance SolveDirect’s expansion in the USA.